Embattled Friedrich Merz faces nervous wait while far-right Alternative für Deutschland party targets further gains
Voters in two German states are going to the polls with the political future of the embattled chancellor, Friedrich Merz, hanging in the balance and an emboldened far right targeting further gains.
Coming two weeks after a seismic election in Saxony-Anhalt in which the anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) scored its highest ever result in a regional poll, the nativist party is expected to drain support again from Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Continue reading...Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses have washed up along state’s coastline according to analysis of citizen scientist records
Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses died during South Australia’s devastating algal bloom, in what ecologists say is the worst mass mortality event for the fish family globally.
More than 1,600 weedy and leafy sea dragons, 1,400 pipefishes and 160 seahorses washed up as the harmful algae spread along the state’s coastline, according to analysis of citizen scientist records by Dragon Search SA.
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Continue reading...Three women were killed in separate incidents just hours apart in NSW on Saturday
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Three women have died just hours apart in separate incidents in one state, including an elderly woman who was fatally stabbed in an alleged domestic violence attack.
A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder after the woman in her 90s was found with stab wounds inside her unit at Sydney’s Bondi Beach at about 5.15pm on Saturday.
Continue reading...The pop star has faced boycott calls after rapper Macklemore was removed from his tour after shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at a concert this month
Ed Sheeran has opened a solo concert in Philadelphia with comments about Gaza, saying what’s happening is “catastrophic and unjustifiable”, in his first show since the his tour plunged into turmoil.
“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, of children’s lives,” Sheeran said on Saturday, adding that he wanted his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics.
Continue reading...Drawn from more than 100,000 images and negatives created between 1975 and 2025, the exhibition Lorrie Graham: Photojournalist is on now at the State Library of NSW.
Graham was the first female photography cadet at the Sydney Morning Herald and worked in London at the Observer and the Times on Sunday before returning to Australia to freelance there and overseas
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rajbhoy has added a photo to the pool:
King Protea, Protea cynaroides. At the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in Mount Tomah, NSW Australia.
TAMPA (ANP/RTR) - Het Amerikaanse leger heeft zaterdag een aanval uitgevoerd op een vaartuig in het Caribisch gebied. Daarbij kwamen vier mensen om het leven, zo meldt het US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) dat verantwoordelijk is voor de regio op X.
Volgens het leger ging het om een "snelvarend voertuig dat actief was langs bekende drugssmokkelroutes". Ook zouden bevestigde inlichtingen uitgewezen hebben dat het vaartuig direct betrokken was bij drugssmokkel.
De VS voerden het afgelopen jaar bijna 70 aanvallen uit op vermoedelijke drugssmokkelboten op de Grote Oceaan en in het Caribisch gebied. Daarbij kwamen 227 mensen om het leven.
Experts van de Verenigde Naties riepen de VS begin september op te stoppen met hun aanvallen op vermeende drugsboten. Zij noemen de aanvallen "onwettig dodelijk geweld".